“Can a Nigerian payroll lender evolve into a full-stack digital bank for African consumers and SMEs?”
Zedvance launched in 2014 as a Nigerian consumer lender focused on payroll-backed personal loans. Over a decade it disbursed 2M+ loans and, in 2024, expanded from pure retail lending into SME banking with asset-backed, working-capital, and supply-chain financing plus business accounts. In 2025 it consolidated its consumer stack by retiring the MoneyPal app and launching the unified Zedvance App — pivoting from a loan-only shop into a lending-led neobank offering wallets, transfers, and bill payments.
Zedvance Finance Limited processes payments through Zedvance App bill payments (self-operated) and Zedvance instant bank transfers (self-operated).
Zedvance Finance Limited's lending and capital products are provided by Zedvance Finance Limited (in-house).
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 2 layers in Zedvance Finance Limited's stack: Payments / PSP (Zedvance App bill payments (self-operated) and Zedvance instant bank transfers (self-operated)); Lending (Zedvance Finance Limited (in-house), Private Payroll Loan, Public Payroll Loan, Quick Loans and 6 others).
Zedvance Finance Limited is founded in 2014 and headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.
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